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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church, born of social and religious restlessness in the 12th Century, still exists as the world's oldest evangelical Christian body. It was founded by Peter Waldo, a rich Lyons merchant who vowed himself to poverty, defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible in 1179. Excommunicated along with numerous other heretics in 1184, he attracted a following who believed with him that it was wrong to take oaths or shed human blood, denied with him the Catholic doctrines of purgatory, indulgence, prayers for the dead...
Furthermore to help Captain Bertinatti, Waldensian pastor attached to the Italian Army in Ethiopia as chaplain, Mussolini invited hard-working Ernesto Comba, head of the Church and professor of systematic theology in the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, to send along another chaplain, a request with which the Moderator gladly complied since, said he, "there are thousands of evangelical Abyssinians...
Lights were dimmer along Manhattan's cafe-cluttered 52nd Street last week as "cafe society" showed the pressure of Wall Street's three-month fall. But people in the market are not the only ones feeling the pinch these days. Figures released from Hollywood last week revealed that between 10% and 20% fewer U. S. citizens went to the movies this October than went a year ago. As a result, one studio which had budgeted some $3,000,000 for new construction cut it down...
Similar retreat along the economic front last week cut U. S. steel operations to 29% of capacity. Only a 1.4% drop from the previous week, this was the smallest since the present depression became apparent last August, aroused some hope. But car-loadings dropped another 6%, making the total 18% under last year; Barren's business index went to 67% of normal; auto output stood at 58,000 units v. 85,000 last fortnight and 102,000 year ago. And the New York Times business index slid on down, having slumped more in the past three months than...
...presumably also be subject to such budgetary juggling. For it cost $64,600,000, of which an estimated $49,000,000 came as a direct Government subsidy. By last week 33,724,295 patrons had paid some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong opposition to the idea from outlying provinces which dislike the thought of their trade suffering while Paris gains...